Hello. I haven't used the forum for quite a while and have four ukes now instead of one. I'm more interested in the smaller ones now than I thought I would be but standard tuning is I think always going to be a bit high-pitched for me. I could and probably will experiment, but has anyone here tried something like the following?
I was thinking of trying to use some hard-tension classical guitar strings, if not extra-hard, and trying to get at least three semitones lower without losing too much tension that it sounds bad. Does this sound like a hiding to nothing? (I can't believe how many times I've used that phrase today on massively different online discussion boards...)
I tune my guitar to open C, and my baritone ukes a semitone lower than normal, and like how detuning can warm up a not so expensive instrument. I suppose I could also try my experiment on my all-mahogany tenor but I like the smaller sound of the Concert better for a reentrant tuning with no wound strings.
'Been there, done that'?
Presumably I can get two sets of Concert Uke strings out of four nylon guitar strings too...
Thanks.
I was thinking of trying to use some hard-tension classical guitar strings, if not extra-hard, and trying to get at least three semitones lower without losing too much tension that it sounds bad. Does this sound like a hiding to nothing? (I can't believe how many times I've used that phrase today on massively different online discussion boards...)
I tune my guitar to open C, and my baritone ukes a semitone lower than normal, and like how detuning can warm up a not so expensive instrument. I suppose I could also try my experiment on my all-mahogany tenor but I like the smaller sound of the Concert better for a reentrant tuning with no wound strings.
'Been there, done that'?
Presumably I can get two sets of Concert Uke strings out of four nylon guitar strings too...
Thanks.